Adding a feedback button to your Flare HTML5 output
Are you looking for instructions on how to add an e-mail feedback button to the toolbar of your MadCap Flare HTML5 output? And would you like a copy of the relevant URL included in the e-mails you get? Keep reading.
Open your Flare project, and follow these steps to add a feedback button to the toolbar:
- Go to the Project Explorer > Skins and open the HTML5 skin.
- Go to the Toolbar tab and add a new button called (e.g.) Feedback.
- Go to the Styles tab and find the sub-node called Toolbar Button > Feedback.
- In the Properties section, expand the Event node and add the following Javascript to the node: window.location=’mailto:your@emailhere?subject=<‘ + escape(window.location.href) + ‘>’;
- Expand the Background node and set Background Image to (e.g.) feedback.png (
). - Save the HTML5 skin and view your HTML5 output. Here’s an example of the output.
When you click the feedback button, your default e-mail client opens, and the URL of the current page is displayed in the subject field.
Have fun! 🙂
Hi! help! I’ve implemented this but my Flare 9 compilation is reporting a couple of errors:
CSS Parser: Line: 1. Char: 12. Invalid token (.)
CSS Parser: Line: 1. Char: 108. Missing identifier (property)
I don’t know which “.” is invalid or what property might be missing (Flare’s usual brilliant error reporting).
It works fine and there are no javascript errors on the page but I don’t like my build output to contain warnings/errors/precuations about missing things.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Ruth
I contacted MadCap support about this and they say its safe to ignore and have entered a bug about it. yey!